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25 science fiction books to read after Morningstar, by Brown, Pierce, the closest match first.

  1. Golden Son

    1. Golden Son

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by...

  2. Iron Gold

    2. Iron Gold

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the #1 bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries of one of the boldest...

  3. Dark Age

    Red Rising Trilogy book 5

    3. Dark Age

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the...

  4. Light Bringer

    Red Rising Trilogy book 6

    4. Light Bringer

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of...

  5. Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)

    5. Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Books in this sub-genre focus almost entirely on magic, but Red Rising stands in stark contrast to that. Part dystopia, part sci-fi fantasy, Red Risingfocuses on the story of a...

  6. Morning Star

    6. Morning Star

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The final volume in Pierce Brown's mega popular Red Rising trilogy. This book came out February 2016; it managed to impress us.So far, this has been our favorite read of...

  7. A Murder in Time

    7. A Murder in Time

    by Julie McElwain

    • On the same lists

    Kendra Donovan is an FBI profiler who, while chasing a killer, is thrown back to 1815 England. There she has to investigate a murder in a country house without the...

  8. Death's End

    Three Body Series book 3

    8. Death's End

    by Liu, Cixin

    • On the same lists

    Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a...

  9. Sleeping Giants

    Themis Files book 1 Start here

    9. Sleeping Giants

    by Neuvel, Sylvain

    • On the same lists

    A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a...

  10. The Obelisk Gate

    The Broken Earth book 2

    10. The Obelisk Gate

    by Jemisin, N. K.

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2017

    "Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth Season Winner of the Hugo Award Shortlisted for the...

  11. Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen

    Vorkosigan Saga book 18

    11. Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • On the same lists

    The last volume of Bujold's award winning Vorkosigan saga, Cordelia needs to find a new direction for her life.

  12. A Closed and Common Orbit

    Wayfarers book 2

    12. A Closed and Common Orbit

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace...

  13. All the Birds in the Sky

    13. All the Birds in the Sky

    by Charlie Jane Anders

    • On the same lists
    Nebula winner 2016

    An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia,...

  14. Too Like the Lightning

    Terra Ignota book 1 Start here

    14. Too Like the Lightning

    by Ada Palmer

    • On the same lists

    "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a...

  15. The Underground Railroad

    15. The Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead

    • On the same lists

    Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she...

  16. Dark Matter

    16. Dark Matter

    by Blake Crouch

    • On the same lists

    One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an...

  17. After Atlas

    17. After Atlas

    by Emma Newman

    • On the same lists

    "Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp...

  18. Central Station

    18. Central Station

    by Tidhar, Lavie

    • On the same lists

    A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally...

  19. Occupy Me (cover not available)

    19. Occupy Me

    by Tricia Sullivan

    • On the same lists

    Pearl is an angel with wings and no clear memory of her origins, who works as a flight attendant and for a Resistance that tries to improve the world through...

  20. Everfair

    20. Everfair

    by Nisi Shawl

    • On the same lists

    An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a...

  21. The Long Cosmos

    The Long Earth book 5

    21. The Long Cosmos

    by Pratchett, Terry

    • On the same lists

    The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine....

  22. The Last One

    22. The Last One

    by Alexandra Oliva

    • On the same lists

    A woman known as Zoo joins a twelve-person reality show, In the Dark, that sends contestants into the woods for a million-dollar prize. While they are out of contact, something...

  23. Underground Airlines

    23. Underground Airlines

    by Ben H. Winters

    • On the same lists

    "It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young...

  24. Crosstalk

    24. Crosstalk

    by Willis, Connie

    • On the same lists

    Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk-- a genre-bending novel that pushes...

  25. Ninefox Gambit

    Machineries Of Empire book 1 Start here

    25. Ninefox Gambit

    by Yoon Ha Lee

    • On the same lists

    Yoon Ha Lee is a name that science fiction fans will want to keep in mind for decades to come. Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, is exactly the kind of...

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